LENROOT, Irvine Luther, a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Superior, Wis., January 31,
1869; attended the common schools; worked as a logger and a court reporter; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Superior, Wis.; member, State assembly 1901-1907,
and served as speaker 1903-1907; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the four
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until April 17, 1918, when he resigned,
having been elected Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on April 2, 1918, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Paul O. Husting; reelected in 1920 and served from April 18,
1918, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; chairman, Committee on
Railroads (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-eighth Congress),
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed the practice of law in
Washington, D.C.; appointed judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by
President Herbert Hoover in 1929, and served until his retirement in 1944; died in Washington, D.C.,
January 26, 1949; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Superior, Wis.

Bibliography

American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Griffith, Robert. Prelude to Insurgency: Irvine L.
Lenroot and the Republican Primary of 1908. Wisconsin Magazine of History 49
(Autumn 1965): 16-28; Margulies, Herbert. Senator Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1977.